The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a pack of playing cards. One card is selected at random, find the probability that the card is a club.
Step 1: Finding the favorable and total number of outcomes
In a pack of cards, there are cards.
On removal of king, queen and jack of clubs the total cards will be .
The pack of cards contain cards of each suit clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds.
The king, queen and jack of clubs has been removed from the pack so the number of club cards is .
Step 2: Finding the probability that the drawn card is a club
The formula for the probability is expressed as,
Substitute the number of favorable outcomes as and the total number of outcomes as .
Hence, the probability of selecting a club card from a pack of cards from which a king, queen and jack of clubs is removed is .